Day: October 23, 2017

A 13th century CE wooden printing plate and paper bank note from the Chinese Yuan dynasty (1271-1368 CE). (Tokyo Currency Museum) By Mark Cartwright / 09.15.2017 Historian The widespread use of paper and printing were features of ancient China which distinguished it from other ancient cultures. Traditionally, paper was invented in the early 2nd century CE, but[…]

The underwater archaeologists from the Black Sea MAP project have explored both the ancient landscapes and human settlements which were affected by environmental change off Bulgaria’s present-day Black Sea coast, and the shipwrecks of some 60 vessels dating from the past 2,500 years. Photo: Black Sea MAP By Ivan Dikov / 10.17.2017 Archaeology in Bulgaria[…]

A banyan tree. Photo by thomas/Flickr By Dr. Jonardon Ganeri / 06.23.2017 Professor of Philosophy and Religion, British Academy University of London In European societies, knowledge is often pictured as a tree: a single trunk – the core – with branches splaying outwards towards distant peripheries. The imagery of this tree is so deeply embedded in[…]

Dare you ride the Gravitron? Photo by Daniel X O’Neill/Flickr By Dr. David Munns / 10.20.2017 Professor of History John Jay College City University of New York If you grew up in the United States in the 1980s, chances are you’ll remember riding the Gravitron at the local fair, or struggling to get past level one of[…]

Detail from the Florentine Codex, late 16th C. / World Digital Library By Dr. Sebastian Purcell / 11.11.2016 Assistant Professor of Philosophy State University of New York, Cortland In the spring semester of the school year, I teach a class called ‘Happiness’. It’s always packed with students because, like most people, they want to learn[…]

By Gilbert Ross / 10.21.2017 The Classic Battle Between Mind and Heart In many ways, it is universally understood that self healing is made, and kept, through consensual agreements that are honored and respected. The same thing can be said about our inner peace. It is a consensual agreement and alignment between elements that constitute[…]